Vancouver Things to Do Tips by Biljana

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English Bay is one of Vancouver's finest attractions. The beaches surrounding the bay are not really stunning and the ocean is not all that clean or breathtaking.......but if you want to see a beautiful sunset this is the place to visit. The street that runs along the Bay, Beach Avenue, is lined with interesting buildings. One of my favorite buildings in the city is located right by beach. Look for the highrise with a tree growing on its penthouse floor.

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I just love this building. I mean you are not going to find many trees growing on top of highrises in the world. Someone in the penthouse has a lovely tree and a great view from the terrace.

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Beach Avenue

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Located on a highrise on Beach Avenue, right across the street from the beach.

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Coal Harbour is one of my favorite parts of Vancouver. Located in the Downtown area, stretching between Gastown and Stanley Park, Coal Harbour is the place to come roller bladding, walking, jogging.... The harbour is lined with shiny yachts from all over the world.

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A short walk from Stanley Park or the Waterfront Skytrain Station.

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This is place that really shows that science can be fun. It has a lot of hands on activities, special exhibitions and a beautiful Imax theater where you can enjoy some great films.

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604.443.7443

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1455 Quebec Street

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Located at the east end of False Creek, you can access it by skytrain, or off of Main Street

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http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca

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Since Vancouver is a coastal city many people enjoy the beauty of the ocean by living in floating homes. Such homes can be found in the False Creek area. Some are particularly stunning during spring time when owners decorate them with flower pots and hanging baskets full of bright spring flowers. A few "water homes" can also be found in Coal Harbour and Deep Cove.

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At the start or end of your trek around the seawall you are bound to find yourself at Second Beach. This is a beautiful beach right in the city centre. It provides the visitors with a chance to swim in the Pacific ocean or for those who are more picky a nearby outdoor pool is open during the summer months. The area also includes nearby parking and rest tables for picnics or playing cards.

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Close to Beach Avenue

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Located on the English Bay side of Stanley Park.

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Simon Fraser University is located on Burnaby Mountain. The term mountain is perhaps not correct, the mountain is really a larger hill. You will get a feeling that you are going up a mountain once your ears start popping due to the altitude change.

The university campus is surrounded by trees and wildlife. The university's location on Burnaby Mountain provides an extensive network of forested trails for walking, hiking and biking.

The architecture of the university is very unique. The whole campus is built out of concrete, hence grey is the predominant colour. On clear days, views of the city from the campus are great. On the campus you'll also find "the Pond", an outdoor fish pond where you'll find many gold fish. On a sunny day you'll find many students sitting and reading by the pond.

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8888 University Drive, Burnaby

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From Downtown Vancouver you can take Hastings and then go up Burnaby Mountain to the SFU Campus. By SkyTrain take Millenium Line. Get off at Production Way station and take bus 145 up to the campus.

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http://www.sfu.ca

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The Granville Street Bridge spans False Creek. The bridge follows Granville Street across False Creek over Granville Island. If you wish to visit Granville Island make sure you look at the signs so you know where to turn to reach Granville Island.

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From Downtown follow Granville Street south towards False Creek.

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While walking around the seawall you are bound to come across this beauty. The rock has its own story told by the following Native legend:

It was "thousands of years ago" that a handsome boy chief journeyed in his canoe to the upper coast for the shy little northern girl whom he brought home as his wife. Boy though he was, the young chief had proved himself to be an excellent warrior, a fearless hunter, and an upright, courageous man among men. His tribe loved him, his enemies respected him, and the base and mean and cowardly feared him.

The customs and traditions of his ancestors were a positive religion to him, the sayings and the advice of the old people were his creed. He was conservative in every rite and ritual of his race. He fought is tribal enemies like the savage that he was. He sang his war songs, danced his war dances, slew his foes, but the little girl-wife from the north he treated with the deference that he gave his own mother, for was she not to be the mother of his warrior son?

The year rolled round, weeks merged into months, winter into spring, and one glorious summer at daybreak he wakened to her voice calling him. She stood beside him smiling,

"It will be to-day," she said proudly.

He sprang from his couch of wolf skins and looked out upon the coming day: the promise of what it wold bring him seemed breathing through all his forest world. He took her very gently by the hand and led her through the tangle of wildernesses down to the water's edge, where the beauty spot we moderns call Stanley Park bends about Prospect Point. "I must swim," he told her.

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The Siwash Rock stands tall and proud right by the seawall around the 6km mark.

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"I must swim, too," she smiled with the perfect understanding of two beings who are mated. For them the old Indian custom was law--the custom that the parents of a coming child must swim until their flesh is so clear and clean that a wild animal cannot scent their proximity. If the wild creatures of the forests have no fear of them, then, and only then, are they fit to become parents, and to scent a human is in itself a fearsome thing to all wild things.

So those two plunged into the waters of the Narrows as the grey dawn slipped up the eastern skies and all the forest awoke to the life of a new, glad day. Presently he took her ashore, and smilingly she crept away under the giant trees. "I must be alone," she said, "but come to met at sunrise: you will not find me alone then." He smiled also, and plunged back into the sea. He must swim, swim, swim through this hour when his fatherhood was coming upon him. It was the law that he must be clean, spotlessly clean, so that when his child looked out upon the world it would have the chance to live its own life clean. If he did not swim hour upon hour his child would come to an unclean father. He must give his child a chance in life; he must not hamper it by his own uncleanliness at its birth. It was the tribal law--the law of vicarious purity.

As he swam joyously to and fro, a canoe bearing four men headed up the Narrows. These men were giants in stature, and the stroke of their paddles made huge eddies that boiled like the seething tides.

"Out from our course!" they cried as his lithe, copper-colored body arose and fell with his splendid stroke. He laughed at them, giants though they were, and answered that he could not cease his swimming at their demand.

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